(The Wall Street Journal) — “The suicide rate among white Americans is a warning sign for our society, argues Princeton economists Angus Deaton and his wife Anne Case, in this episode of Moving Upstream.”
Two Princeton economists are sounding off on what they consider to be warning signs of a crisis of American capitalism.
Prof. Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton see increases in suicides and other “deaths of despair”—particularly among middle-aged, white Americans—as a sign that “something is not right,” with society.
If we can only generate good lives for an elite that’s about a third of the population, then we have a real problem.